LED Dash lights
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Re: LED Dash lights
its one from the guys over at www.kirad.co.uk, uk based company, looks pretty good compared to what I had before
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i just got the wled194 bulbs in red. I did my heater conrol and it works, did my shifter and it works and did my mirror and they work. I just tried on the guages and they do not work. Am i missing something? please help.
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Re: LED Dash lights
Turn your dimmer **** left and right. The LEDs won't dim but rather turn on and off. Try that.
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i did. all the other ones look great and turn on and off fine. i also tried them agian with the wires pulled from the bulbs and wrapped like they should be on the metal part of the socket. Its a 1990 BTW
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Got it, guess the cluster wasnt making good contact. idk works good and looks sooo much better now.!
looks pink but thats just the camera. wleds bulbs. I missed a bulb/removed it for the tach so i dont see that cuase the broken tech is annoying thing and doesnt do anything but redline anyways. lol


looks pink but thats just the camera. wleds bulbs. I missed a bulb/removed it for the tach so i dont see that cuase the broken tech is annoying thing and doesnt do anything but redline anyways. lol


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Re: LED Dash lights
tonight would be cool, but I haven't even got home yet. but another day would b cool. I am kind of between fairwood and the highlands
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Re: LED Dash lights
Anyone try the LED bulbs in a car with a digital dash? The orange or yellow speedometer on my GTA's digital dash is hard to read when the sun hits it. I wonder what a blue led would do back lighting it?
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Re: LED Dash lights
Yeah your it is LCD. I wonder what LED bulbs would look like in a 87 GTA with a LCD Digital Dash? Anyone try this out? I'm thinking the outcome would be bad?
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Re: LED Dash lights
Um, that's not possible. LCD stands for Liquid Crystal Display. Which is how the numbers/letters are projected. LED stands for Light Emmiting Diode. And again, it is the source of light. You can't have both.
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Re: LED Dash lights
i want to do this in mine, what color should i go with? i was planning on red bc the car is red, but my dad and brother said go with blue. what do yall think
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Re: LED Dash lights
I was thinking about switching my blue LEDs. They are nice. Not too bright and not too dim. I want to change to white, but there is no way to dim the light unless you purchase extra parts.
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Re: LED Dash lights
IMO id say red, i have red all over the car, the dome light isn't as bright as normal but the dash looks great in red, its easy on the eyes at night and yet still very visible
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Re: LED Dash lights
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Re: LED Dash lights
I used whites one in this application and i ordered these leds off of ebay, a pack of 100, I used roughly 80 of them. These came with the free resistors. After I made the mounts, (heated up some thick plexiglass so i could bend it, and mounted that with some strong glue), i put the leds on the mounts, and then used a wall adapter to light them up to make sure i got the position of them just right before reassembly. You can use these same bulbs on the shifter, not sure about the hvac lights. The route most people take is the plug and play bulbs, but they are a lot more expensive, (my setup cost me roughly $6 for the whole thing, considering though I already had the glue). There is a lot of resources on this site to find the bulbs you need to plug and play. i believe a lot of people use the mini wedge bulbs from superbrightleds.com 

Thanks. I've got my dash out now and I'd give my left arm for them to look like that. :]
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Re: LED Dash lights
Has anyone purchased white LEDS and re-used the orange slip covers? Well I ordered "WLED-x5: 5 LED T10 Wide Angle Wedge Base Bulb" in natural white and will do just that. If it all works well and looks like factory lighting with a bright, crisp boost I'll post pics with half the gauges LED and half stock bulb before I put it all back together. That should give a good comparison. Restored 100% of the interior from top to bottom this winter and hoping this will only give me a brighter "factory" look.
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Re: LED Dash lights
I used these, four of them:
http://www.superbrightleds.com/morei...edge-base/206/
You also need the sockets for them:
http://www.superbrightleds.com/morei...ocket/704/962/
They are polarized, so check function before you button it all up. Just hold the cluster in place and turn on the parking lamps. I had to rotate half of them myself. Mine do not dim, but my headlight switch is questionable.
Here is what the cluster looks like with those bulbs in it:
http://www.superbrightleds.com/morei...edge-base/206/
You also need the sockets for them:
http://www.superbrightleds.com/morei...ocket/704/962/
They are polarized, so check function before you button it all up. Just hold the cluster in place and turn on the parking lamps. I had to rotate half of them myself. Mine do not dim, but my headlight switch is questionable.
Here is what the cluster looks like with those bulbs in it:
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Re: LED Dash lights
I used these, four of them:
http://www.superbrightleds.com/morei...edge-base/206/
You also need the sockets for them:
http://www.superbrightleds.com/morei...ocket/704/962/
They are polarized, so check function before you button it all up. Just hold the cluster in place and turn on the parking lamps. I had to rotate half of them myself. Mine do not dim, but my headlight switch is questionable.
Here is what the cluster looks like with those bulbs in it:

http://www.superbrightleds.com/morei...edge-base/206/
You also need the sockets for them:
http://www.superbrightleds.com/morei...ocket/704/962/
They are polarized, so check function before you button it all up. Just hold the cluster in place and turn on the parking lamps. I had to rotate half of them myself. Mine do not dim, but my headlight switch is questionable.
Here is what the cluster looks like with those bulbs in it:

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Re: LED Dash lights
Has anyone tried the 6 diode Led Mini wedge 194? I would like to know if its to much for the dash. Any opinions? And also what beam angle should I select if I do go with the 6 diode? Joined: Jun 2010
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I don't know if anyone answered this here or not. I know the cluster used T10 bulbs. What size are the 3 center bulbs? The 2 Turn signal bulbs and the 1 high beam bulb? Are they T5's? Thanks.
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I am trying to change to LEDs I need to know what kind of bulb the turn signals and the high beam is. Are they T5 or lower like T4 etc? Thanks guys.
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The 194 are for all the lights in the cluster except the Turn signals and the high beam lights. The 194 can be changed to T10 LEDS. I need to knoe the size of the smaller top bulbs. The Turn signals and the high beam bulbs. What number are they? Thank you So much.
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Re: LED Dash lights
I want to come back to this. I like the LED look but not sure if I want to stray from stock. I guess I need to re-read this.
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Re: LED Dash lights
Just replaced my whole dash, shifter, hvac and floor lights with red LED's. I'd post a picture but I don't have a good enough camera. I love it so much driving at night though, I just want to swap the overhead lights to LED's also. I'm not sure what kind I need. Can anyone give me a link to the best ones or just tell me what size I need?
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Just replaced my whole dash, shifter, hvac and floor lights with red LED's. I'd post a picture but I don't have a good enough camera. I love it so much driving at night though, I just want to swap the overhead lights to LED's also. I'm not sure what kind I need. Can anyone give me a link to the best ones or just tell me what size I need?
I used these: 2 x White 41mm 16 LED SMD SMT Car Festoon Dome Interior Map Light Bulbs Lamp New
See if you can find red.
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http://www.superbrightleds.com/cat/l...11-322--96435/
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Try this for turn signals and high beam, its the same for all 3 and you have a few options. Called a 74, similar wedge base bulb like a 194 but smaller.
http://www.superbrightleds.com/cat/l...11-322--96435/
http://www.superbrightleds.com/cat/l...11-322--96435/
Thank you soo much man I placed an order.









